TROY – Sanctuary city supporters sang Christmas carols during a candlelight vigil Monday night outside a banquet house where Mayor Patrick Madden held a $125 per person re-election fundraiser.

More than 25 members of Troy Sanctuary Campaign, ICE-Free Capital District and the Troy Area Labor Council continued their efforts to see Troy join Albany, Hudson and Kingston as sanctuary cities. They suffered a setback last week when the City Council tabled the sanctuary city resolution to study its impact and review the language.

“Obviously, we’re sad and concerned that the mayor was opposed to the resolution declaring Troy a sanctuary city,” said Sean Collins of the Troy Area Labor Council, who has helped lead the push for the resolution.

Collins said the groups were outside the Franklin Plaza Ballroom at 126 Campbell Ave. to remind Madden that their members played valuable roles in getting Madden elected in 2015.

About 50 to 60 people were expected to attend Madden’s fundraiser. While Madden hasn't officially announced his re-election bid, city Democratic leaders and activists said he would run next year for a second four-year term.

“My concerns are for the public safety of the city’s residents and the visitors who come here,” Madden said at the fundraiser.

The mayor said he wants to review the language of the proposed resolution and its potential impacts.

Collins had said the resolution’s language was drawn from resolutions in Albany, Hudson and Kingston. Madden said it needs to be studied to ensure that it fits Troy’s unique characteristics.

There’s a need for a community dialogue to discuss the issue, Madden said, adding that many of the comments so far made by supporters and opponents for the sanctuary city resolutions “were just plain wrong.”

The City Council’s Public Safety Committee held a hearing Dec. 4 and the full City Council addressed the resolution Dec. 6, drawing mostly supporters of the resolution out to speak.

The measure is firmly opposed by the Troy Police Benevolent Association, the union representing the city’s patrol officers, detectives and sergeants.

A detective and sergeant, who can’t comment publicly, said they and their colleagues don’t ask a person their immigration status when out on calls.

Supporters of the resolution said that its wording recognizes that the police force doesn’t inquire about immigration status and supports the status quo.

The resolution directs that police and other city employees will not ask about the "immigration status of individuals being provided local government services, except where the receipt of such services or benefits are contingent upon one's immigration or citizenship."

The sanctuary city push grew with the May 29 arrest of Dalila Yeend, 35, by city police after she rolled through a stop sign.

The officers arrested her for not having a valid driver’s license. She was arrested when a standard background check revealed she was wanted on an immigration-related warrant.

A judge released Yeend, who was born in Australia and immigrated to the United State from New Zealand when she was 17, on her own recognizance. Police, however, detained Yeend due to an outstanding arrest warrant until U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents took her into custody.

The mother of two American-born children, Yeend said last week that legal action against her has been dropped by ICE and she has applied for a green card.

The City Council has not yet publicly set dates for additional study and discussion of the sanctuary city measure.